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Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia:

Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?

Reports & Research
August, 2022
Cambodia
Land & Investments
development
land policies
agriculture
land investments
farmers
smallholders
Agricultural investment at the crossroads in Cambodia: Towards inclusion of smallholder farmers?
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A Story about Maize: Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf

Reports & Research
May, 2022
China, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, United Kingdom
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
deforestation
land use
agriculture
encroachment
land investments

This is the PDF version of an online data story published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022.

Maize is a key global cash crop, produced in every continent except Antarctica. As a flex crop, it has multiple uses including for direct human consumption, as an ingredient for animal feed, as a key component in processed foods, or in ethanol production. According to figures from FAOSTAT, global production increased from 0.2 to 1.2 billion tons between 1961 and 2020.
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List of Bibliographic References: A Story about Maize

Tracing a value chain from land-use to supermarket shelf

Reports & Research
May, 2022
China, Japan, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, United Kingdom
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
deforestation
land use
agriculture
encroachment
land investments

This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the data story written by Daniel Hayward and published by the Land Portal on 12 May 2022.
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Land conflicts between Economic Land Concessions and smallholder farmers in Bousra commune (Cambodia): What Are the Policy Implications?

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Cambodia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
agriculture
concession (land)
land investments
foreign investment
land dispute
land dispute resolution
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
In 2007-8, the Cambodian government granted Economic Land Concessions (ELC) to two rubber companies, namely Socfin-KCD and Dak Lak Mondulkiri Aphivath in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province. Through a comparative approach, the Case study examines the impact of these rubber concessions on local land tenure systems. It examines how each company took into consideration the land claims of affected people and communities, and the effectiveness of the conflict resolution approach.
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Pathways to human well-being in the context of land acquisitions in Lao PDR

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2021
Laos
Land & Investments
land use
agriculture
land acquisitions
land investments
foreign investment
responsible investment
dispossession
Land acquisitions are transforming land-use systems globally, and their characteristics and impacts on human well-being have been extensively analysed through local case studies and regional or global inventories. However, national-level analysis that is crucial for national policy on sustainable agricultural investments and land use is still lacking. This paper conducts an archetype analysis of a unique dataset on land concessions in Lao PDR to provide a national-scale assessment of the impacts of land acquisitions on human well-being in 294 affected villages.
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Farm Land Policy and Financing Program for Young Generation in the Philippines

Reports & Research
June, 2015
Philippines
land use
agriculture
land acquisitions
land transfers
farmers
youth
The Philippines is basically an agricultural country with about 30 per cent of the total land area of the country cultivated by almost 5 million farmers. However farm area devoted to agriculture has been decreasing due to land conversion. The basic problem is that Filipino farmers do not have the ability to buy their own lands. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program was implemented to address this problem of landlessness thru redistribution of land.
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‘Shifting ground’

Renegotiating land rights and rural livelihoods in Sarawak, Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2011
Malaysia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land law
indigenous peoples' lands
land use
agriculture
land use change
land investments
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
palm oil industries
In this paper, we use an actor-oriented perspective to explore the nature and extent of conflict and negotiation with regard to land use and tenure among the Iban of Sarawak. The Iban are shifting cultivators who have long been involved in smallholder cash crops.
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Gender, the Status of Women, and Family Structure in Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2017
Malaysia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
agriculture
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
This paper addresses the question of whether the relatively high status of women in pre-colonial South-east Asia is still evident among Malay women in twentieth century Peninsular Malaysia. Compared to patterns in East and South Asia, Malay family structure does not follow the typical patriarchal patterns of patrilineal descent, patrilocal residence of newly married couples, and preference for male children.
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Agricultural Land Use in Malaysia: An Historical Overview and Implications for Food Security

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2013
Malaysia
Urban Tenure
land policies
urban land
land use
agricultural land management
agriculture
land use change
land economics
A study is conducted to describe the historical overview of agricultural land use in Malaysia with the aim of identifying the challenges of agricultural land use in a dynamic economic system. Economic policies were explained with major policies instruments. The effects of these policies on patterns of agricultural land use in 1960–2005 were assessed. Findings identified three broad economic eras in Malaysia: Agricultural (1960-1974); Industrial (1975-1999) and Urbanization eras (2000-date).
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Land Acquisition, Investment, and Development in the Lao Coffee Sector: Successes and Failures

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Laos
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
Despite the increasing acknowledgment of scholars and practitioners that many large-scale agricultural land acquisitions in developing countries fail or never materialize, empirical evidence about how and why they fail to date is still scarce. Too often, land deals are portrayed as straightforward investments and their success is taken for granted. Looking at the coffee sector in Laos, the authors of this article explore dimensions of the land grab debate that have not yet been sufficiently examined.